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INDEX 



Dangerous birds, 192. 



Death, mystery to bear, 133. 



Deer, author's fight with, 307; com- 

 bats of male, 280; insanity, 18, 289; 

 temperament, 17, 18. 



Deer, axis, 153; temperament, 18. 



Deer, barasingha, temperament, 18. 



Deer, fallow, homing instinct, 176; 

 temperament, 18. 



Deer, mule, or Rocky Mountain 

 black-tail, escapes from puma, 278; 

 female, murdered by mate, 289; 

 Max Sieber's story, 155; tempera- 

 ment, 18. 



Deer, sambar, Indian, killed by tiger, 

 279; temperament, 18. 



Deer, sambar, Malay, droll trait in, 

 153; temperament, 18. 



Deer, Virginia, 156. 



Deer, white-tailed, 58, 156; compara- 

 tive intelligence, 41 ; temperament, 

 18. 



Defense, of nest, by Canada goose, 

 251 ; by laughing gull, 251 ; of fami- 

 ly, by animals, 249; methods of, 

 against dangerous animals, 306. 



Defilement of food by wolverine, 223. 



Desert Botanical Laboratory, 163. 



" Dinah," gorilla, 93, 94. 



Dipodomys deserti, 165. 



Display of plumage by birds, 190. 



Ditmars, Raymond L., 46, 201. 



Dog, comparative intelligence, 41, 42; 

 criminality, 223; sheep-killing, 223. 



"Dohong," orang-utan, 73, 75; dis- 

 covery and use of lever, 77-80, 



Door manipulated by bear, 133; by 

 elephant, 106. 



"Dowagfer, The," in battle with 

 "May Queen," 282. 



DuChaillu, Paul, 100. 



Duck, eider, 183. 



Eagle, attacks antelope, 252; attacks 

 on young mountain sheep, 233; 

 wedge-tailed, 188. 



E^ton, Howard, 252. 



Education, definition, 9; of animals, 

 in Zoological Park, 206. 



Edwards, J. S., 86. 



Elephant, /Elian on, 118; African, 

 102; antipathies of "Gunda," 107; 

 attack, methods of, 308; attack on 

 keeper Thuman by "Gunda," 310; 

 attacks railway train in India, 258; 

 catching operations, 109, 114; com- 

 parative intelligence, 41, 42; com- 

 pared with horse, 116; comprehen- 

 sion under training, 112; courage, 

 258; curvature in brain of "Alice," 

 119; door manipulated by "Con- 

 go," 106; fighting between ele- 

 phants, 283; fighting methods of, 

 309; fighting to order, 118; in- 

 genuity of "Kartoura" in manipu- 

 lating doors and locks, 107; keddah 

 operations, 109, 114; memory, 109; 

 123; mind, loi, 103, 115; moral 

 qualities, 116; "must," 117; ob- 

 servations, independent, 104; per- 

 formances, no; philosophy, 113; 

 promptness in execution of orders, 

 115; punishments for, 2591 reason- 

 ing, 104; rogue, 223; sign language, 

 105; temperament, 23; training, 

 207; tricks of "Alice," 108; tricks 

 of "Gunda," 108; vengefulness, 

 117, 123; voice, 35; working, ac- 

 complishments, III; Yerkes on, 

 119. 



Elepkas indicus, 103. 



Elephas pittiUlio, 106. 



Elk, American, 38; attack methods, 

 305; courage, 247; fights William 

 Woodruff, 248; men killed by, 302; 

 recognizes protection, 154; temper- 

 ament, 1 8. 



Elk River Mountains, mountain goat 

 in, 151. 



"Equine Paradox," 214. 



"Esau," chimpanzee, 82. 



Eulabes, 187. 



European brown bear, attacks keeper, 

 141; comparative intelligence, 41; 

 feared by Kadiak bear, 270; tem- 

 perament, 17, 128. 



